Freshness-Aware RAG: Incremental Indexing and Recency

1Key Takeaways

• Originally published on AI Tech Connect .
• There is a whole literature on making retrieval accurate and almost none on making it current.
• Chunking, hybrid search, index parameters, rerankers and evaluation metrics are well covered — our guides on chunking and embedding strategies, hybrid retrieval, vector index tuning, reranking and RAGAS evaluation each cover one properly.
• All of them, ours included, quietly assume the corpus holds still while you tune against it.